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James Harden finally defeated Stephen Curry. Following a season in which Curry won nearly everything there was to win, Harden was the choice of NBA players as the winner of the first NBA Players Choice Award for MVP announced on Tuesday, edging Curry, LeBron James and Russell Westbrook. Though other details about the voting were […] …

OAKLAND, Calif. — In the 21 previous playoff series in which the MVP went against the runner-up, the MVP’s team has gone 14-7, most recently with the Miami Heat and the MVP LeBron James defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder and Kevin Durant, the runner-up that season, in the 2012 NBA Finals. That series included Rockets […] …

For all the Clippers lacked, from their presumed indispensable star to enough time since their sensational first-round series to catch their breath, they had the quality the Rockets lacked and needed most. With the series opener on the line, the Clippers showed all the poise either built or proven through their seven-game survival test against […] …

Long before Rockets guard James Harden went from MVP candidate to runner-up, he insisted the award would be nice, maybe even a dream, but not a goal. With Golden State guard Stephen Curry officially named the runaway winner of the 2014-15 MVP, Harden said Monday he still had other things in mind. “It’s tough, but […] …

As he has all season, Stephen Curry won again. Curry will be named the NBA Most Valuable Player this week, honoring a season in which he led the Golden State Warriors to a league-best 67 wins, with Rockets guard James Harden the runner-up, CSN-Bay Area reported on Sunday. The NBA has not announced a schedule […] …

Rockets guard James Harden said he thinks he has done everything he can to win the NBA’s MVP award this year, but that he isn’t thinking about it too much. “I think I’ve done enough but that’s not my main focus,” Harden said. With four games left this season, Harden is one of the front […] …

After Sunday’s thrilling showdown between the Rockets and Cavs, the Houston Chronicle’s Jonathan Feigen and Jenny Dial Creech break down all the action. jonathan.feigen@chron.com twitter.com/jonathan_feigen jenny.creech@chron.com twitter.com/jennydialcreech …

The showdown had to be. Everything else — and there was plenty — was the undercard, preliminaries to the matchup that one way or another would separate one James Gang from another. Finally, with Sunday’s game heading to its final fourth-quarter minutes and overtime, James Harden and LeBron James went at one another in a […] …

Kevin Durant was made MVP last season in a media vote, but if Durant had his way, the decision would be left to players. “You guys get too much power to vote on stuff quite frankly I don’t think you know a lot about, not as much as we know about it,” Durant said when […] …